Nanko

Nanko Huisman is an electronic musician with a sense of humor and a guitar. His latest album, entitled Stratonica, demonstrates these facts even in its name. Nanko invented the word Stratonica to describe the music he was making, incorporating live guitar performance into his one-man electronic band, with influences ranging from Aphex Twin to Igor Stravinsky.

To watch Nanko perform is to watch an artist at play. His enchantment fills the room and time flies when you're having fun. His... Meer »

Nanko Huisman is an electronic musician with a sense of humor and a guitar. His latest album, entitled Stratonica, demonstrates these facts even in its name. Nanko invented the word Stratonica to describe the music he was making, incorporating live guitar performance into his one-man electronic band, with influences ranging from Aphex Twin to Igor Stravinsky.

To watch Nanko perform is to watch an artist at play. His enchantment fills the room and time flies when you're having fun. His joy and playfulness in performance seem to go against the norm in a genre that is sometimes lacking in these areas. Never flighty, but surprising within the structure, Nanko's live performance engages the listener/watcher without the need for abstract visuals: it is simply a joy to watch him play.

Nanko has performed at festivals such as Sonic Acts, State-X New Forms, and collaborated with Zoid at the Kilkenny Arts Festival.

September 2005 saw the release of his self-titled debut; a bizarre collection of beats, atmospheric soundscapes, and guitar shreds, which has caused many a reviewer to invent a whole new arsenal of linguistic acrobatics.

On his 2007 album "Stratonica", his fragmented sound collages have been absorbed to form eleven well-balanced compositions, and on which his typical sound has been perfected to a complete innate esthetic. « Minder